The Quad
Synopsis
The Quad
By
Nathan Ross Freeman
Copyright © 2010
CARSON(35) is a mother. She abandoned her daughter, a monster baby, at birth. The guilt sticks her to her fate. She has been a waitress since she was old enough to work and a love slave to helpless younger men. Her destiny? She wants to be a pediatrician, of course. RACHEL, an immortal is her daughter's champion at her daughter's death bed.
LILY(25) is a daughter. Her mother, KAREN(Role ages 25 and 45)who suffers from a dual personality disorder, and afraid she might harm Lily, abandoned Lily as an infant to her Professor BART's(58) steps. So, Lily sticks to her fate, safe, on campus, a professional student. Lily has her mother's disorder. Her destiny? Lily wants to escape the campus, go out, save the world, Amnesty International. Rachel, the immortal, is lily's mother, Karen's, champion at Karen's death bed.
TORI(20) is a daughter, a world renown model. Fear of her mother, MONA (40) sticks her to her fate. She has been her mother's trophy doll since she was seven years old. She often makes a game of suicide. Her Destiny? Tori wants to be a vet. Rachel, the immortal is Tori's very own champion at each and every one of her death beds.
SERTAIN(30IS) is an immortal, like Rachel. Comrades. Only Sertain wants to become mortal so she can live. Sertain goes to war with her immortality, enters a womb at the point of gestation and is born a daughter, a mortal one.
Rachel, an immortal, wants to become mortal so she can die. Rachel needs something from Carson (Disease), Lily(Pestilence), Tori(Famine) and Sertain(War); the apocalyptic shackles that bind these mothers and daughters through the womb. She needs something from them so she can earn a death. Thus, The Quad.
The Story
Rachel, an immortal, a doll maker, spends her eternity as champion to the hopeless and terminals of the four horses of the apocalypse: Famine, Disease, Pestilence and War. Rachel suffers from PTSD and survivors guilt and wants achieve mortality to earn a death.
Rachel uses artifacts to make her dolls powerful enough to negotiate mortality.
Rachel must find a way to take a piece of Cloth from Tori, a Stone from Carson's, a Key from Karen, Lily's mother, and a Knife from Sertain, her comrade immortal, to make a doll that will win her mortality. To earn her a death.
Rachel strategically befriends Tori, Carson and Lily and manipulates them with presents of dolls to get them to connect with the cloth, stone and key in magnificent heart warming and heart wrenching moments where Rachel forces each to transcend their fate to reach their destiny. Rachel needs to drag them to their crossroads to empower the artifacts.
Rachel takes the stone and Carson, leads her to her dying child; takes the key and Lily, leads her to her dying mother, Karen; takes the cloth to Tori, places it between her lips and Tori's, catches Tori's last breath in the cloth, dials 911. Visits Sertain and fights her to get the knife.
The artifacts now blessed, make the doll.
Rachel makes the doll and stuffs it with the stone, key and cloth. As she tries to sew the doll Rachel is attacked by invisible immortals. Rachel has to get to the knife, stab the doll, last step. The struggle is vicious and breath taking. In and out of consciousness from being slammed against walls, dragged splintered across the floor, Rachel pulls her human body out of socket to reach the knife ...
Rachel stabs the doll.
Rachel wins.
Her death begins.
In her last 4 breaths we flash forward to see Carson tend monster babies born to others. Lily tends refugees in Dafur. Tori, in an ambulance, a covered corpse, suddenly sits up, startles the EM'S.
Sertain sits fetal outside the doll house, watches Rachel's last breath and whispers, "Damn."
Rachel, the immortal, earns a mortal death. Or does she? A wisp of purple light, the color of royalty and sorrow, fogs the room.
FADE OUT:
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